... For Two Pen Set Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or ... most of which are native to Asia,[4] with a number also appearing in Europe, northern Africa, and ... native habitat.[6]The word Acer is derived from a Latin word meaning "sharp" (compare "acerbic"), referring ... by the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1700. Since 1965, a stylized maple leaf has been ...